The ban on vehicle movement on the two national highways passing through the Bandipur National Park will come into effect from Wednesday. This follows a direction from the Karnataka High Court. According to the order, vehicles will not be allowed on National Highway 212 (Mysore-Gundlupet-Sultan Battery) and NH 67 (Gundlupet-Ooty) from 9 pm to 6 am.
The Bandipur-Mudumalai (Tamil Nadu) and Bandipur-Sultan Bathery (Kerala) road stretches will soon be rid of most inter-state vehicles during the night.
The Karnataka High Court on Monday issued interim directions, staying a June 10 government order to withdraw the ban on vehicular movement imposed by local authorities.
The wildlife in Bandipur is endangered by highway traffic-----
Death Count
? A tiger and an elephant
? Seven langurs, two leopards
? Six mongoose, three sloth bear
? Nineteen spotted deer, eleven sambhar, ten shikras, nine Indian hare
? Eleven bonnet macaque, six red-vented bulbul, seven jungle owlet, eight egret, six drongo.
? Five spectacled cobras
The High Court on Monday directed the government to file its reply to a petition challenging the lifting of ban on movement of vehicles on Bandipur-Sultan Batheri road.
Deputy Commissioner of Chamarajnagar had ordered ban on movement of vehicles on June 3, and the order was withdrawn on June 10, 2009.
BANDIPUR: A sub-committee comprising senior officials of Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu and other stakeholders will be constituted to study the effect of vehicle movement in the national parks in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve (NBR) and to suggest steps to mitigate its impact.
Following intervention from Kerala legislators, Karnataka government on Wednesday withdrew order banning movement of vehicles from 9 pm to 6 am on two national highways that pass through Bandipur National Park.
The order was supposed to come into effect on Wednesday night.
It could have come from plants, thinks Karnataka Four wild elephants, found dead in Nanjangud, 25 km from Mysore, in November 2008, died of cyanide poisoning. Chemical analysis ordered by the Karnataka forest department has confirmed this. The deaths made the high court take notice for the first time of the increasing number of unnatural deaths among elephants in the state. In December it
From his lookout atop an 80- foot-tall tree, Gopal could see the forests in three states burning simultaneously last fortnight. Even though fires are not unusual at this time of year in the Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve (NBR)
